Hey folks :)
Here is your summary of what's been happening around Wikidata over the past week.
Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Press/Blogs https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Press_coverage
- Past: WikiCon 2016 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCon_2016 - Past: OASPA conference http://oaspa.org/conference/ (slides http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/citations-needed-for-the-sum-of-all-human-knowledge-wikidata-as-the-missing-link-between-scholarly-publishing-and-linked-open-data ) - Past: State of the Map http://2016.stateofthemap.org - Past: National Institute of Health: frontiers in data science lecture series https://datascience.nih.gov/community/datascience-at-nih/frontiers ( slides http://www.slideshare.net/dartar/wikidata-verifiable-linked-open-knowledge-that-anyone-can-edit ) - Upcoming: SMWCon https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2016 - Upcoming: office hour on IRC https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events - Blog post about Wikidata and data about Czech trees http://blog.wikimedia.cz/2016/09/agentura-ochrany-prirody-a-krajiny-poskytla-data-o-pamatnych-stromech-podivejte-se-jak-s-nimi-ted-kouzlime
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The query examples have been migrated from mediawiki.org to wikidata.org at d:Wikidata:SPARQL examples https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_examples - HPI is doing a linked data engineering course online https://open.hpi.de/courses/semanticweb2016 - TXT Werk http://www.txt-werk.de is doing automatic entity recognition in text with the help of Wikidata. Previously only German was supported. English is now supported as well. - Andy https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing has mapped https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%3Fvalue%20%7B%0A%20%20VALUES%20%3Fpred%20%7B%20wdt%3AP1628%20wdt%3AP2235%20%7D%20.%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fpred%20%3Fvalue%20.%0A%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3AdirectClaim%20%3Fpred%20.%0A%20%20FILTER%28%20STRSTARTS%28%20STR%28%3Fvalue%29%2C%20%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2006%2Fvcard%2Fns%22%20%29%20%29%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%20.%0A%7D most of the W3C's ontology https://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf/ for vCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:vCard to Wikidata properties.
Did you know?
- Newest properties https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: Heritage Lighthouse of Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3211, Heritage Railway Station of Canada ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3209, New General Catalogue ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3208, Vine user ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3207, data.gouv.fr ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3206, patient of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3205, Ciné-Ressources person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3204, Ciné-Ressources movie ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3203, UAI code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3202, Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3201, Northern Ireland charity number https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3200, charity number (Isle of Man) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3199, JewishGen Locality ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3198, Federal Heritage Buildings ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3197, USGS earthquake id https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3196, league points system https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3195, INA video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3194, GS1 Manufacturer code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3193, Last.FM music ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3192, IMIS person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3191, innervates https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3190, innervated by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3189, Nobel prize ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3188, Marburger Professorenkatalog ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3187, TAXREF ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3186, VKontakte username https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3185, Czech National Bibliography book ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3184, WSJ topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3183, FANTOIR code https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3182, OpenCitations bibliographic resource ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3181 - Query examples: taxonomy of squirrels https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AGraph%0Aselect%20%3Fchild%20%3FchildLabel%20%3Fparent%20%3FparentLabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP225%20%22Sciuridae%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Fparent%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ2455704%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftop%20wdt%3AP225%20%22Sciuridae%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Ftop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ2455704%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Fparent%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ34740%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20UNION%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftop%20wdt%3AP225%20%22Sciuridae%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Ftop%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsf%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fsf%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ2455704%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Fsf%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fparent%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ34740%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP171%2a%20%3Fparent%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ16521%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchild%20wdt%3AP105%20wd%3AQ7432%20.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D (source https://twitter.com/vrandezo/status/778660283904585728), good or featured articles about people on Wikipedia but with no picture on Wikidata https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Items%20about%20people%2C%20with%20a%20badge%20on%20Wikipedia%20but%20no%20picture%20on%20Wikidata%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%28COUNT%28%3Fsite%29%20AS%20%3Fcount%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ5%20.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3Aabout%20%3Fitem%20.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20wikibase%3Abadge%20%3Fbadge%20.%0A%20%20%3Farticle%20schema%3AisPartOf%20%3Fsite%20.%0A%20%20%0A%20%20FILTER%20NOT%20EXISTS%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20%7D%0A%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fcount%29 (source https://twitter.com/ash_crow/status/778199158083772416), Nordic Cross flags https://query.wikidata.org/#%23defaultView%3AImageGrid%0ASELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fitem%20%3FitemLabel%20%3FjurisdictionLabel%20%3Fimage%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3A279%2a%20wd%3AQ208324%20.%20%7D%20UNION%0A%20%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP136%20wd%3AQ208324%20.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP1001%20%3Fjurisdiction%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP18%20%3Fimage%20%7D%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%20%7D%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20%3FjurisdictionLabel%20%3FitemLabel (source https://twitter.com/PoulpyWP/status/777934856059817984)
Development
- mnc (for Manchu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Manchu_language) will soon be available as a language code for monolingual text values ( phabricator:T137808 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137808) - Worked on foreign EntityIds in order to be able to use Wikidata's items and properties on Commons in the future (phabricator:T145516 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145516, phabricator:T146030 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146030, phabricator:T146274 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146274) - More work on usage tracking UI (phabricator:T145965 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145965, phabricator:T143148 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143148, phabricator:T145189 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145189, phabricator:T144923 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144923) - RFC discussion about Multi-Content-Revisions - another big blocker for structured data on Commons (phabricator:E273 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E273) - Ran a bot to mark dates that need a check of their calendar model ( phabricator:T105100 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105100) - Getting unit conversion into the query service soon. We'll start with units for length and then expand based on feedback. (phabricator:T117032 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117032) - Working on extension to automatically link pages between languages on Wiktionary (phabricator:T145412 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145412) - Added the value that is responsible for an error in the error message so it can be found and fixed more easily (phabricator:T144303 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144303) - Working on fix for issue with extremely large or small date values in RDF (phabricator:T146356 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146356) - Expanding references again in diffs (phabricator:T129836 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129836) - Unbroke CopyReferences gadget. More work is needed. ( phabricator:T142203 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142203) - Fixed issue with 2 search suggestion boxes showing up instead of 1 ( phabricator:T119492 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119492) - Worked on improving the query service documentation ( phabricator:T133052 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133052)
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/R8GRzX1eH0tb/#R. - Help develop the next summary here! https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next - Contribute to a Showcase item https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items - Help translate https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread pages in your own language! - Help merge identical items https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects. - Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above. - Comment on property proposals: all open proposals https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview - proposals needing attention https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Attention_needed
Anything to add? Please share! :)
Cheers Lydia